Bénédicte Boisseron

Bénédicte Boisseron is a French academic. She has worked as a professor at the University of Montana and University of Michigan. A 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, she is author of Creole Renegades and Afro-Dog (2018).

Biography Bénédicte Boisseron was born in Paris. After obtaining her MA in English at Paris Diderot University, she moved to the United States to obtain her PhD in French and Francophone studies at the University of Michigan;

After she spent some time as an associate professor of French and Francophone studies at the University of Montana.

Boisseron specialises in Black studies. In 2018, she released another book, Afro-Dog; she had been inspired to write the book by local suspicions towards a dog her parents brought with them during their move into the Caribbean. In 2022, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellow in Literary Criticism.

In 2011, she and Frieda Ekotto were co-editors of a short story anthology named Voix du monde: Nouvelles francophones. She and Astrid Billat co-authored La culture francophone, a French language education textbook published in 2016 by Hackett Publishing Company.

Bibliopgrahy (with Frieda Ekotto) Voix du monde: Nouvelles francophones (2011) Creole Renegades (2014) (with Astrid Billat) La culture francophone: le monde à l'écoute (2016) Afro-Dog (2018)